‘Donald, you have driven us to a really, really important moment for America and Europe, and the world. You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get done. Europe is going to ...

Trump owes his electoral success to workers without college degrees who feel betrayed by the system. The onset of AI will ...

Dr. Reinhold Brender is a Senior Associate Fellow at Belgium’s EGMONT – Royal Institute for International Relations. A former EU official, he brings extensive expertise in EU external relations, ...

Heavy street fighting broke out between rival militias in the centre of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, just weeks before Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice). The clashes were the most violent seen in some ...

Trump’s war on language doesn’t just shake US politics — it threatens global discourse. The world must reclaim words before meaning slips away Some 2 500 years ago, Confucius was reportedly asked what ...

Alliances among countries rarely last long. Whether it was the League of Nations, the Protestant Union, the League of the Three Emperors or the Holy Alliance, the partners generally parted ways ...

‘I’m standing here in pieces, and you’re having delusions of grandeur!’ The line, delivered in an acclaimed Hollywood movie from 1980, might well serve as Europe’s most accurate opening gambit in a ...

Sven Biscop teaches at the University of Ghent and heads the Europe in the World programme at Egmont — Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. He is the author of This Is Not a New ...

The doctrine of Wandel durch Handel, or ‘change through trade’, shaped international trade and geopolitics for several decades. It holds that deepening commercial ties between nations will lead to the ...

In a recent speech, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), articulated a clear desire for the euro to play a more significant role as an international currency. This, she ...

Emmanuel Cohen-Hadria is Executive Board member of Diplomeds, a cross-Mediterranean policy group advocating for dialogue and cooperation and facilitating back-channel talks in the region. He co-edited ...